My Leap Day Birth Story at the Farm My daughter’s birth story begins right about where her brother’s leaves off, 2 1/2 years earlier. His birth took me about a year to process. If you’d asked me any earlier than that, I’d have told you that I loved everything about the experience (hospital birth with a CNM) and had no…
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Hypnobirth Water Birth Story with Gorgeous Pictures
The birth story of Chai as told by his mother, Rachel B. I have the most precious 7-day old son. This has been the sweetest, deepest week of my life. My son’s birth has been like an enormous purifier on my life. I feel stripped of my layers of cynicism, doubt, and annoyance. My heart is laid raw and weeps…
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Two Hour Accidental Unassisted Homebirth
The birth story is a little unconventional, but it was an unconventional birth! *Note: I had been having contractions since 32 weeks. At 38 weeks, my midwife did a vaginal exam at my request, and found my cervix was low, soft, and anterior, and baby’s head was engaged at 0 to -1 station. I was 11 days over my EDD…
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Hospital Birth…It’s a BOY!
My name is Nicole and this is how Landon Alexander came into the world. I went off birth control when my husband left for Iraq hoping that when he came home for leave we would get pregnant. This way we could get all the military perks, but also so he could be here for most of the pregnancy and the…
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Finally! It’s Over! A Birth Story.
My plans were to have an unassisted home birth and to not have any prenatal care. But plans don’t always work out. So at 36 weeks pregnant, after eating dinner, I feel water down my legs and freak out completely thinking oh crap my water broke, here I am with no house (living at the in laws between houses) got…
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Simplicity
This is my all time favorite picture from my second home birth. I love the simplicity of it! This way of weighing newborns is so classic! Baby Charlie is in there! 7lbs 9oz! Photo by Brenna Lyn Photography.
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Natural Water Birth Instead of Repeat Cesarean
“This is a picture of me and my 3rd daughter, Ailsa, just 2 minutes after she was born. Thank you for making the beautiful empowering birth of my daughter possible! When I found out I was pregnant with my 3rd daughter, I was going have an elective c-sec as my previous births had been horrendous and traumatic, but you made…
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Traumatic First Birth Followed by an Empowered Surrogacy Birth of Twins
Birth of My Daughter When I was pregnant with my daughter, I had an insatiable appetite for natural birthing information. I thought that seeing a CNM for prenatal care would balance out my ex-husband’s request that I birth in the hospital. I thought wrong! I went into labor at 36 weeks and 6 days exactly, and a few hours later…
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Birth Images from a Hospital Water Birth
“I had a hospital water birth. The second pic (with baby) was taken 22 minutes after the first (after a 14 hr labour). Birth is not all bad!” ~Laura This birth was at LGI Hospital in Leeds, UK.